Know the true value of time snatch seize and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness no laziness no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

You must look into people, as well as at them.

A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Real heroes are those who face death for a principle - say, to save the lives of others - without any promise of reward.

There's a great difference between being positive and being delusional.

It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day.

It takes a lot of energy to be funny... for me it does. I feel like I work twice as hard when I'm doing comedy.

I like being 30. I wouldn't want to do the twenties again. They are their own entity.

No, I love Montreal... I think I love Montreal more than Montreal loves me... I love the food there.

Be willing to commit yourself to a course, perhaps a long and hard one, without being able to foresee exactly where you will come out.

God, the Great Giver, can open the whole universe to our gaze in the narrow space of a single land.

I don't love performing, because it's nerve-racking and it's time - consuming to rehearse a whole set - and my time can often be better served writing music and just making it and putting it out.

What the world's million lips are searching for, must be substantial somewhere.